In Stomp the Yard, DJ, an 18-year-old hip hop ace from South Central Los Angeles, is given a scholarship to an expensive, all-black university in Atlanta, Georgia, dominated by fraternities that compete in the art of 'stepping', a form of dancing and chanting that resembles an amalgam of hip hop, clog dancing and haka.

DJ is recruited by one of these snobbish clubs and learns to be a team player and to look forward to a life in which his fraternity brothers will help him advance in society. A long, dislikable film.